Building a Home Wireless Mesh Network

A long time ago, in a land far far way, I used to live in a one bedroom apartment. A single router provided good wifi coverage throughout the apartment. Life was good.

HOWTO: Wordpress on PHP-FPM and Apache

This was done on Ubuntu 15.10, though instructions should easily translate to other Debian/Ubuntu derivatives.

First, install the required packages:

$ apt-get install apache2 php-fpm5

Introducing `dbxcli`: A command line for Dropbox

Cross-platform tool for users and administrators to interact with Dropbox

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The Elusive Uber Jar

Have you ever built or shipped a (large) Java application? If so, you probably packaged everything together in a single jar/war file to make it easy to download, deploy and run. Despite being such a seemingly common (and simple) task, building this “jar with dependencies” — commonly called…

HOWTO: Wordpress on Nginx

This was done on Ubuntu 15.10, though instructions should easily translate to other Debian/Ubuntu derivatives.

First, install the required packages:

$ apt-get install nginx php-fpm5